Quotes about grief
grief tears olives
Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf. Marcus Tullius Cicero
grief sorrow opinion
Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.
grief pay world
Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death. Margaret Deland
grief light darkness
It is in the darkness that one finds the light.
grief two joy
We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body. Mary Oliver
grief love-is pay
Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief. Mary Doria Russell
grief progress hard
It's hard to make progress with grief. Martin Amis
grief men envy
If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity? Pietro Metastasio
grief would-be inward
If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno Si leggesse in fronte scritto, Quanti mai, che invidia fanno, Ci farebbero pieta!].
grief grieving bereavement
One often calms one's grief by recounting it. Pierre Corneille
grief reality tragedy
There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy. Rachel Caine
grief past natural-talent
Everyone knows how to love,because we are all born with that gift.Some people have a natural talent for it but the majority of us have to re-learn,to remember how to love,and everyone,without exception,needs o burn on the bonfire of past emotions,to relieve certain joys and griefs,certain ups and downs,until they can see the connecting thread that exists behind each new encounter;because there is a connecting thread. Paulo Coelho
grief essence guilt
My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated. Quentin Crisp
grief doors land
We collected in a group in front of their door, and we experienced within ourselves a grief that was new for us, the ancient grief of the people that has no land, the grief without hope of the exodus which is renewed in every century. Primo Levi
grief evil feelings
Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil. Plutarch
grief our-love want
We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections. Phillips Brooks
grief ease
She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief. Nathaniel Hawthorne
grief people want
She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.
grief sorrow depth
It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid. Pearl S. Buck
grief mountain finals
The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.
grief loss identity
I talk about things like how to lose without losing identity. All loss and grief feels like when you transition. Paula White
grief writing plot
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways. Peter Temple
grief evil torment
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived Ralph Waldo Emerson
grief taught shallow
The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
grief thinking media
The general assumption, which I think is a valid one, is that a lot of the major media were on their heels a little bit and prone to share the grief of the nation and to give Bush all the support it could. Seymour Hersh
grief men joy
To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief Marcus Aurelius
grief causes opinion
Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt.
grief heart hands
Let not therefore thy heart be troubled, neither let it fear. Trust in me, and put thy confidence in my mercy. When thou thinkest thyself farthest off from me, oftentimes I am nearest unto thee. When thou countest almost all to be lost, then oftentimes the greatest gain of reward is close at hand. All is not lost, when any thing falleth out contrary. Thou oughtest not to judge according to present feeling; nor so to take any grief, or give thyself over to it. Thomas a Kempis
grief men
There are some men above grief and some men below it.
grief heart textbooks
I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan. I've been taught in my life that you can have plans, but you can't count on them. There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will. Taya Kyle
grief writing mobility
I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved. Tara Brach
grief may violence
Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy Joseph Conrad
grief poet loved-ones
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief? Kate Morton